changing the subject a bit another myth is about feeding live foods
only feed as a treat it's nonsense
I have been wondering this, and doubting its authenticity as well: I mean as in the myth that it's bad to feed live foods all the time.
Do fish find flakes in the wild? Pellets? Freeze-dried foods? I think not, and they have survived millions of years without us making them pellets with man made synthetic fillers.
I would say that feeding a fish, one specific live food, in a sterile tank that has no algae, snails, or ever been fed anything else to build detritus, that
might be a bad idea. I dont doubt that one particular food might be lacking in a certain mineral or vitamin, but I doubt using live food as a staple is harmful to the fish, as long as there is some variance.
Of course, I'm not a 30+ year veteran of the fish hobby, I havent even made it a year, but common sense tells me that fish dont find "
staple diet foods" in the wild on a daily basis, and make do with that which is abundant at the time, dependent on location and season.
I have started making live foods a bigger part of my adult fishes diet, since I have tiny fry whom get it, and I followed the directions for BBS at 1 tablespoon, which is about 1,000 times too much, so why waste it?